Tool.



No. 687,526. Patented Nov. 26, |90I.

J. HARRIS.

TOUL.

(Application led July 29, 1901.\

(lo Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JONATHAN HARRIS, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE BROVN FENCE AND WIRE COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION.

,TOOLi SPECIFICATION forming part 0f vLetters Patent N0. 687,526, dated November 26, 1901.

Application led July 29. 1901.

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it knownY that I, JONATHAN HARRIs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvement-s in Tools, of which I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in hand-operated tools for securing the loops of a clamp in a wire fence; and my device consists in Vupper and lower gripping-tools adapted to seize and hold, respectively, the crossing wires and the looped portion of the staywire while the loop is being wrapped about the horizontal wire.

My invention consists in the details of construction, as hereinafter described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l shows the position ofthe tools when in use and in the act of attaching the loops. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the tools in the samev position. Figs. 3 and 4 are views of the operating extremities of the upper and lower tools. Fig. 3EL shows the other side of one extremity of the upper tool, and Fig. 5 is a view of the completed fastening.

In the views, A is the upper tool, and B the lower. The upper tool comprises a handle portion suitable to be grasped in thehand, terminating in a loop or crook. In the sides G and H of this loop are placed the horizontal slots a, which open in opposite directions and into which the horizontal wire of the fence is inserted. Also the vertical slots a', which are in vertical alinement and open in opposite directions, are placed in the sides G and H. In these vertical slots the vertical or stay wire is inserted. The loop E is formed upon the stay-wires D, and the wire is placed upon Serial No. 70,117. (No model.)

the fence so that the loops will hang over the horizontal wires, as shown at the right of Fig. l. The tool B is provided with a radial slot F, cut therein, and the loop is inserted in this slot, as shown in Fig. 2. The tool B will then be placed between the sides G and H of the tool A, and the handle being forced upward the loop will be wrapped about the horizontal wire and the fastening will be completed.

It will be seen that the upper tool serves to hold securely the parts while the lower one wraps the wire, and it is especially adapted for use with the form of ,loop illustrated in Fig. 5;v but I do not limit its use to any particular loop; but it is adapted to form a clamp between any crossed wires.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

-l. The combination with a tool having a looped extremity of horizontal open slots oppositely placed in the sides of the loop, and opening in opposite directions, vand vertical slots also opening in opposite directions arranged one above the other, substantially as described.

2. A tool constructed and arranged to grasp a wire crossing, comprising a handle portion and looped extremity therefor, in combination with, oppositely-placed and oppositelyopening horizontal slots one on each side of the loop and oppositely-placed and oppositelypointed vertical open slots, arranged in vertical alinement, in said arms, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof Y I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

his JONATHAN HARRIS.

mark Witnesses:

WM. M. MONROE, C. H. OLDs. 

